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Tristan Alonge - Parution ouvrage
Université de la Réunion

Félicitations à Tristan Alonge pour la parution de son nouveau livre, Racine et Euripe : La révolution trahie (Genève : Droz, 2017). Veuillez trouver ci-dessous un précis :

Helléniste remarquable, Jean Racine se distingue de tous ses contemporains, et de Corneille en particulier, par le retour incessant à la tragédie grecque. C'est en traduisant Aristote, en annotant les pièces athéniennes et en adaptant Euripide sur scène, qu'il retrouve le secret du « héros tragique », ni tout à fait coupable ni tout à fait innocent. En bousculant les codes dramaturgiques de l'époque, Racine fera de sa découverte le symbole d'une « révolution » dans l'art de fabriquer des tragédies. L'ouvrage se propose de reconstruire l'évolution de cette « révolution racinienne », en explorant son origine grecque et ses manifestations les plus explicites, à savoir les quatre pièces inspirées d'Euripide : La Thébaïde, Andromaque, Iphigénie et Phèdre. La lecture croisée de l'ensemble des sources permet de décoder le palimpseste racinien en laissant émerger le rôle crucial joué par le texte euripidéen sous-jacent. Pourtant, en véritable caméléon, Jean Racine n'hésitera pas à sacrifier son souffleur athénien et sa propre révolution sur l'autel du succès. http://www.droz.org/france/fr/6509-9782600057974.html
Post date: 7 years 4 months ago
Katherine Ibbett - new book
Trinity College

Congratuations to Katherine Ibbett, whose book Compassion's Edge has just appeared with The University of Pennsylvania UP. Please find further details below.

Compassion's Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France (Pennsylvania, 2017) Katherine Ibbett

Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. Early modern fellow-feeling drew distinctions, policed its borders, and far from reaching out to others, kept the other at arm's length. This book ranges widely over genres, contexts, and geographies, taking up major figures such as D'Aubigné, Montaigne, Lafayette, Corneille, and Racine, as well as less familiar Jesuit theologians, Huguenot ministers, and nuns from a Montreal hospital. Investigating the affective undertow of religious toleration, Compassion's Edge provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

Full Description, Table of Contents, and More: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15747.html

 

304 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus.  Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4970-5 | $79.95s | £66.00  Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9456-9 | $79.95s | £52.00  A volume in the Haney Foundation Series: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/HFS.html

Post date: 7 years 4 months ago
Article de Francis Assaf
The University of Georgia (Emeritus)

Congratulations to Francis Assaf, whose article "Le Page disgracié: l’Histoire ou une histoire?" has been published in the most recent volume of Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (XLIV, 86 (2017): 7-18).

Post date: 7 years 6 months ago
Sophie Maríñez's new book
BMCC/CUNY

Congratulations to Sophie Maríñez, for the publication of her book, Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2017). This book was the recipient of a 2012 NEH Summer Stipend Award.

Further details are available through the following website: brill.com/products/book/mademoiselle-de-montpensier

Post date: 7 years 6 months ago
Jennifer Row article in Exemplaria
Boston University

Congratulations to Jennie Row whose article "Queer Time on the Early Modern Stage: France and the Drama of Biopower" was published in Exemplaria 29.1 Free e-prints are available below: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FpdhCtk6DK5nb9Nmvaxs/full

Félicitations !

Post date: 7 years 10 months ago